Historia scholastica

Item Information

Place of origin:
[France?]
Language:
Latin
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in France in the late 12th century.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: 16th-century inscription on fol. 1 recto; chapter titles (possibly contemporary with the main text) written in the margins along outter edge of the page. Formerly ms. n. 26 in a French monastic library (?); owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), his 1849 sale (n. 121) to Bertram, the Fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878. BPL embossed stamp on first two leaves.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased at the Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 142 to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (Cockerell's notes on front flyleaf).
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, I: 919
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: unus deus est.
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (modern paper) + 200 + i (modern paper) ; 1-25⁸ ; quires signed on the center margin of the last verso of each quire and occasionally on the lower center margin of the first recto, signatures a-p preserved. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper right corner of each recto.
Layout: Two columns, 45 lines. Ruled in light plummet.
Script: Written in a late romanesque/early gothic script in black ink with red rubrics, some rubricator guides preserved vertically in outer margin (e.g. fol. 38 and 39).
Decoration: 2-line red epigraphic capitals throughout; books begin with 5-9 line red epigraphic capitals.
Binding: Contemporary vellum over boards, rebacked by BPL 7/9/30, early 20th-century endpapers and pastedowns, front hinge detached, clasps and bosses lacking.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in the Library," More Books III (1928): 61.
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_018635
Call #:
RARE BKS MS f Med.12
MS G.31.86 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999090770924